The perfect companion to learning about the weather, no matter where you live or whether it is raining or sunny outside, an enlightening and entertaining miscellany of our planet’s most complex, diverse and powerful system -without which life simply would not exist. more...

Following his popular Weird Astronomy, David Seargent explores atmospheric and "shallow space" rather than deep space events. Using a balanced, scientific approach, the book covers strange, unusual, and apparently inexplicable observations of the air and sky. more...

America has one of the most varied and dynamic weather systems in the world. Every year, the Gulf Coast is battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the Southwest reaches a sweltering 120 degrees. Extreme weather can be a matter of life and death, but even when it... more...